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This might just be the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever heard. It’s definitely the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever written. Kaitlyn Trigger is a marketing director at Rally.org. She also happens to be Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger’s girlfriend of two and a half years (The 26 year old...

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This is what happens when Reddit’s beloved Overly Attached Girlfriend (Laina Walker) meets Samsung’s advertising department. If you didn’t know, the advert is to help sell Samsung’s SSD products (hold on to the end and it’ll be the last thing you see), following on from the Memory video ads it...

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We don’t know much about how successful Google’s Chromebooks really are. Outside of talking about their adoption in schools and businesses, Google has never released any detailed sales figures. Most analysts assume they aren’t exactly a run-away hit. That hasn’t stopped Google from pushing forward with this initiative in the...

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On Tuesday night at 11:40 PM, life changed for 22-year-old Sandeep "Sunny" Singh. Singh sat in his sister's room and went on the Massachusetts Mega Millions lottery website. There, he found out he'd won the $30.5 million jackpot. "I dropped the ticket. My mom picked it up. She read it...

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'Kia can't just call it a coupe, they have to commit more atrocities against language'How do you turn a cee'd into a pro_cee'd? Take away two doors. No, it wasn't supposed to be a joke. I was just explaining the difference, OK? This is just the coupe version. But because it's Kia, they...

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"Did you hear the what Bernice was told? Her brother's girlfriend's cousin's boyfriend's father knows someone at the coffee shop by his work whose mother's best friend's nephew's schoolmate has exclusive, percent-100 accurate proof that the Apple hologram machine is real and has been in double-secret alpha testing with...

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Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit, and sold it to Conde Nast. Now he has a new publishing venture, Breadpig, and he's turned into chief evangelist of the Internet. When the SOPA/PIPA debates were raging, Ohanian was one of the must public voices fighting against the legislation. As one of the busiest,...

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By now you probably have heard that reMail, an email search client for the iPhone, has been acquired by Google and was removed from the AppStore. What is a little bit more interesting in my eyes is a look back at how reMail has evolved. Let’s take a look at what...

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After teasing a new “life-saving” feature yesterday, Facebook has announced the ability to add organ donation status to a person’s Facebook Timeline. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Good Morning America early today to talk about the feature, saying that the idea of it came from having dinner with...

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Part of the problem. (Photo: Pinterest) So, there's a very real illness that's destroying the lives of mothers everywhere. It’s called “Pinterest stress,” and it reportedly affects 42 percent of mothers. A crippling condition that is yielding a lot of sad BBs in the world, "Pinterest stress" leads people to worry that...

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Donald Trump was on Squawk Box this morning. After chatting for a bit about Jamie Dimon, and how regulation is hurting the banking system, Trump turned to a subject that really animated him: Marriage, divorce, and pre-nuptial agreements. Said Donald: Here's my question... but Mark Zuckerberg is going to be...

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As my colleague Eliza Kern has reported, Facebook has apologized for the way it handled “hate speech” against women on the social network, after repeated complaints from advocacy groups alleging that it was turning a blind eye to what was clearly offensive behavior. This has been hailed by some as...

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Google recommends you seek therapy. (level343.com) Today's "Tech Confessional" in BuzzFeed's FWD tech blog is the stuff of nightmares. Reyhan Harmanci talked with a one-time Google contract worker who told of what sounds like a truly horrifying year dealing with the very worst of the Internet. The unnamed techie basically...

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Samsung has been churning out really good advertising lately. This is not one of those. It joined forces with the creepily wide eyed internet sensation Laina "Overly Attached Girlfriend" Morris to get consumers to buy the SSD 840. This is not exactly a huge consumer market, which is probably why...

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Eugene Foster, a 31-year-old man, found a nude picture of his girlfriend's daughter on her phone and decided to teach her a lesson by sending that naked picture of her to everyone on her contact list. Uhh... yeah, that's pretty much historically horrible parenting. More »...

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When it comes to dating, tech savvy singles use OkCupid to find potential mates. It's typical to assume that nice guys finish last, and if you were to meet the gentlemen that Tumblr blog Nice Guys Of OkCupid has carefully selected, you'd quickly understand why that statement is true. The...

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Having sworn never to go back to SXSW, guess where you'll find me on Saturday? Come and see my humiliation. Or, dammit, I'll have to suffer it alone.This Saturday in Texas, things are going to get real. A little too real. "The Upgrade", my memoir about how I spent almost...

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Kaveh Lajmir had taken out mobile phone insurance, but a trip to Barcelona has left him with huge charges for fraudulent callsOn reflection: Vodafone, this is a disgraceVodafone boasts on its website that when you take out its insurance, "you don't need to worry if anything happens to your phone"....

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John McAfee was rushed to a hospital in Guatemala today, reports Reuters. He apparently suffered two mild heart attacks earlier in the day, according to his lawyer. Reporters witnessed McAfee carted off on a stretcher from a cottage owned by the immigration service. He had been detained there after crossing...

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Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel talks about Facebook rejecting a $1 billion offer from Yahoo in 2006. He and Accel’s Jim Breyer were on the same page – “take the money and run.” But Zuckerberg said no. He “barely humored the idea of selling,” says Thiel. Which is about the same...

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Nintendo has finally kicked off the Wii U advertising campaign, just days before its new console hits store shelves — and still, most of its marketing efforts are centralized on social media channels. The company’s new commercial, which is available on Facebook and YouTube, shows off “How U Will Play...

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Mark Zuckerberg's personal net worth may soon surpass Larry's and Sergey's. So you have to get creative about how to spend those billions. What better way than to pay homage to a fellow wunderkind and cure a bad case of the linsanes all at the same time? Mr. Zuckerberg...

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Last June, 21-year-old Laina Walker uploaded her first-ever YouTube video for a Justin Bieber contest. The goal of the contest was to take Bieber's popular song, "Boyfriend" and change the lyrics to "Girlfriend." To stand out, Walker wrote her version from the perspective of a stalker. While Walker only placed...

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an Instagram account under the name Zuck. At least we're pretty sure it's his -- the first picture is a closeup shot of his girlfriend Priscilla Chan. The second is a picture of a MacBook Air keyboard. We have no idea why it's there....

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Microsoft released a new video today in its "Scroogled" campaign against Google. This time, it's warning people that Google will snoop on your Valentine. The goal is, of course, to get people to leave Gmail for Microsoft's alternative freebie email service, Outlook.com. Google is just "a habit" that people can't...

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When I was younger, my parents liked to listen to the big soft rock stations in Los Angeles. Once in a while, the sappy love songs would be interrupted by an emotional dedication from a boy/girlfriend to their significant other. It was awkward, but also kind of beautiful. But mostly...